Donate Now: Help Us Provide Essential Community Meals in MTL

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make your summer gift to the depot.

Summer brings longer days, family gatherings, and time to enjoy our neighbourhood. But for many families, it also means losing access to school breakfasts and lunches, higher childcare costs, and even greater pressure on already stretched household budgets.

THE IMPACT OF YOUR DONATION OVER THE SUMMER

Every dollar makes a difference, and every donor plays a part.

Throughout the summer, your support helps us meet the growing need in so many ways:

Food fuels solidarity.

At The Depot, we believe nourishing food is a right, not a privilege.
Your donation helps people put food on the table today while building community health, connection, and change for tomorrow.

More than 3,000 donors, foundations, and partners make this work possible, and individuals like you now represent over a quarter of our total revenue.

households receive healthy, essential groceries each month

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affordable community meals are served each week

hands-on cooking activities are offered in summer camps

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healthy snacks and meals are sent to youth summer camps

markets are held across NDG, bring affordable, healthy food and neighbours together

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people registered in weekly collective gardens across NDG

‘’It’s easy to say one is troubled by food insecurity and to give food or money to help with that. The Depot is special and remarkable because they go way past easy and help people learn cooking, budgeting, gardening skills, all the while fostering a sense of community and always maintaining the dignity of the participant. That’s why we have supported the Depot for so many years.’’

— Carol and Gerry

The Power of Your Donation

Every dollar makes a difference, and every donor plays a part.
Your generosity fuels a community-wide effort: helping people fill their fridges, neighbours share meals, and youth learn to cook and grow food together.

Together, our donor community ensures that everyone in NDG can access nourishing food with dignity.

OUR IMPACT IN NUMBERS

2025

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food bank visits

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community meals served

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cooking workshops offered

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volunteer hours contributed

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collective garden sessions hosted

Why do we ask for money, not food?

We do not accept food donations.

Financial contributions allow us to purchase fresh, high-quality, culturally diverse food directly from distributors and farmers. This ensures participants have consistent, dignified experience where they can choose their own groceries and plan their meals.

It also takes more than food to run our programs. Donations support the staff, spaces, and systems that make all of our programs possible.

By giving money instead of food, you help us reduce waste, plan efficiently, and make every dollar go further — strengthening food access, community connection, and long-term solutions.

If you’d like your donation to go directly toward purchasing food, you can select “Fresh Food Fund” when making your donation.